Cultural studies in the EFL classroom
By: edited by Werner Delanoy, Laurenz Volkmann.
Contributors: Delanoy, Werner.; Volkmann, Laurenz.
Series: Anglistische Forschungen -- Bd. 369; Anglistische Forschungen -- Heft 369.
Publisher: Universitá̈tsverlag Winter
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9783825352561
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; English language -- Globalization; Language and culture
Other titles: Cultural studies in the English as a foreign language classroom.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. LAYING A FOUNDATION. Introduction: cultural studies in the EFL classroom / Werner Delanoy & Laurenz Volkmann; title: Cultural studies: key issues and approaches / Doris Teske; title: 2. AREA STUDIES RECONSIDERED. A. Focus on Britain. 'Cool Britannia'?: versions of contemporary Britishness / Susanne Reichl; title: 'First industrial nation': a cultural studies perspective on the British industrial revolution in the EFL-classroom / Doris Teske; title: Representations of British schools in British films: uses in the EFL classroom / Gabrile Linke; title: "Watch this!" Regional pride: Scotland, a nation in its own right / Joachim Schwend; title: B. North American studies. The American dream / Peter Freese; title: Minority voices: (re-)introducing Native America to the EFL classroom / Nancy Grimm; title: 'The first nation of hockey' and 'the best part of North America': introducing Canada in the EFL classroom / Sabine Doff; title: C. Postcolonial perspectives. The postcolonial mind: reading indigenous Australian texts in the foreign language classroom / Eleonore Wildburger; title: Unity in diversity: the Indian kaleidoscope in the EFL classroom / Joybrato Mukherjee; title: 3. INTER- AND TRANSCULTURALITY AS PARADIGMS FOR CULTURAL STUDIES. "Don't mention the war": Fawlty towers, the 'funny walk' and the Anglo-German relationship in the EFL classroom / Christoph Ehland & Thomas Leuerer; title: Meeting point London: using different media to develop intercultural communicative competence via field trips / Andreas Müller-Hartmann & Marita Schocker-V. Ditfurth; title: Negotiation for intercultural meaning in secondary school EFL classrooms: Australia, a project / Jörg-Ulrich Ke€ler; title: Politeness rules: pragmatic approaches to intercultural competence in the EFL-classroom / Christoph Schubert; title: The concept of do's and don'ts in intercultural communication: critical considerations / Friedrich Lenz; title: Lingua franca English as chimera: sociocultural and sociolinguistic perspectives / Allan James; title: Transculturality and (inter-)cultural learning in the EFL classroom / Werner Delanoy; title: 4. LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE: NEW APPROACHES, NEW TEXTS. A. Cultural studies and literature. Teaching William Shakespeare: new approaches to the Bard in the EFL classroom / Roland Petersohn & Laurenz Volkmann; title: Jazz: Toni Morrison's novel and the use of cultural studies in the literary classroom / Wolfgang Hallet; title: Glimpses of Indian life in the classroom: Salman Rushdie's short story "Good advice is rarer than rubies" / Stefanie Woyth-Gutberlet; title: British pop-culture novels: Nick Hornby in the EFL classroom / Roland Petersohn; title: B. Cultural studies and literature with a small 'l'/culture with a small 'c'. Teaching the Harry Potter 'phenomenon' in the EFL classroom: Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / Sandra Hestermann; title: Tolkien's The lord of the rings: beyond the printed text / Jana Honegger & Thomas Honegger; title: Racisim in British children's literature, or, from Little black Sambo to Harry Potter / Margaret Holt; title: Poetry, rap, hip hop / Andrea Taubenböck; title: Comics and graphic novels in the classroom / Dirk Vanderbeke; title: Pop-music, video and gender / Eckart Voigts-Virchow.